Zebra Force
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Director Joe Tornatore Music director Louis Febre Language English | 4.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Crime Duration Country USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Robert Leon , Annette Lombardi , Joe Tornatore Release date 1976 (Argentina)
1980 (Philippines)
1984 (USA) Cinematography Robert Maxwell, Billy Dickson Cast Mike Lane (Carmine Longo), Richard X. Slattery , Rockne Tarkington , Glenn R. Wilder ((as Glenn Wilder)), Anthony Caruso (Salvatore Moreno)Similar movies The Godfather , A Walk Among the Tombstones , Run All Night , Let's Be Cops , Forrest Gump , Independence Day Tagline Running with the mob can be deadly! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Code name zebra zebra force full film with trailer
Zebra Force (Codename: Zebra, USA title) is a 1976 American film directed by Joe Tornatore. The film is about a group of Vietnam War veterans who declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia. The film is also known as Code Name: Zebra (USA) and Commando Zebra (Italy). A sequel by Joe Tornatore with Mike Lane, also named Code Name: Zebra followed in 1987.
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Plot
The film opens with a raid on an illegal casino performed by a group of blacks with automatic weapons. The audience discovers the perpetrators are white disguised as blacks. The story moves to a Vietnam War flashbacks with a patrol being ambushed by the Vietcong, and the resulting firefight. The leader of the vigilante veterans is a man known simply as the Lieutenant who was their platoon leader and disfigured in the action. Recuperating in a hospital he regroups the survivors for a series of escalating raids to not only to enrich themselves, but to wipe out organised criminal gangs involved in illegal gambling and narcotics distribution.
The main protagonist of the film is Carmine Longo, a Mafia enforcer sent to meet with local chief to discover who performed the action. The two are assisted by a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department detective sergeant. Their suspicion falls on their only known suspects, a gang of drug dealing black criminals who deny their involvement. Longo schemes to eliminate them through their police contact who will set up a drug deal where they can be killed by the police.
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